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Tags: Swearing, Love, Sex, War, Intercourse, Space, Science Fiction, Future, Sci-Fi, Scalie (Shark), Alien, Size, Light Femdom, Female Muscle, Blood, Violence, Assault, Implied Rape, Implied Non-Consensual, Consensual, M/F
Disclaimer 1: This story does deals with anthro shark (alien)/human sexual interactions. Understand that while the story is tagged to be Femdom, it is very light in it. There is a chapter in which a character is assaulted and implied to be raped (But there is an eventual consensual sex scene in it). There is blood, violence, execution, and war in this story.
Disclaimer 2: It is recommended that you read the earlier Gabatrix stories if you have not read them yet. This story is a part of the Tales of Heroes universe written by me. It does not require you to read the Tales of Heroes stories however......
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By CMed
Prologue
"The warrior is responsible for considering all options before engaging the enemy. Do not rush headlong into battle. Use your terrain, use your resources, use your expertise, and then bring the wave. As the enemy looks at the tidal surge, you strike them when their back is turned." Shira, 2347 AD.
.......Humanity is at a difficult war. Itrean clans launch assaults onto human-controlled worlds. All seemed to be lost. The human military was crumbling. Defeat was inevitable.......
.......However, a miracle has occurred. The T'rintar clan has found Itrea, and an alliance is established with mankind. The clan vows to protect and assist the humans in their war to survive......
.......The war is far from over, though. It's been five months since the last raid. An Itrean clan assault fleet is nearing one of the colonies. Its mission is unknown......
Chapter 1: May 10th, 2350
There is no doubt that we can't avoid space. Anywhere you look, we are in it. The sea of blackness and void of perpetual nothingness is the definition of the term. Instead, we look at a single planet and its moon as we begin to zoom in on it. The planet itself is covered in a haze of gray and orange. We already know what it is, and we have been there before.
We begin to fly closer to the planet. It is almost beyond any form of recognition. Humanity, except for the few, has decided that it was a lost cause. We fly through into the atmosphere. We escape as the smog, and thick dust threatens to smother us. Even if you don't need air to breathe, you wonder how humanity ever made it through. The thick ash clouds form thunderstorms of black and gray. Terrifying, the lightning strikes are intense as they smash the ground hard, producing heat hotter than the sun itself. We zip through it, and then we are hit with something else.
You begin to see rainfall. The thunderstorms are intense, but you can definitely see the rain. Perhaps it brings some comfort as the winds hit you hard. You understand that the planet at least has activity going on it.
Unfortunately, you realize that the rain has a horrific taste. The sight alone is sickening as you watch it. If you could feel it, then it might burn your skin or prove toxic to the touch. It produces a taste and smell that is similar to plastic. It seems that humanity did not care about this planet at all. There were some that did care, but many did not. It proved to be disastrous.
The storms......you must get away from it. The plastic acid rain is unbearable. Hundreds of years of garbage, volcanic ash, and pollution have taken its toll on the environment. How did humans survive such a calamity? Why did they do it?
Finally, we get away from the storm. It seems for once there is a brief respite of getting out of the thick clouds of this planet. We come to look at the ocean. It is a somewhat clear sky, even with the overlay of gray haze above you. You look down to look upon the sea. Perhaps gazing at it will give you some relief upon getting out of that storm.
Unfortunately, it does not. What should be a pristine blue ocean of liquid water is instead a horrifying orange and red color. There is no life in it but one. A perpetual dumping ground of trash, garbage, and pollution has all reduced the oceans to this. We have to, unfortunately, get close enough to look at this once glorious ocean that was once called the Atlantic Ocean.
We fly right next to the ocean. You are clear from all harm that it brings you as you have to reach your hand into it. It is an orange sludge. It almost bubbles to the surface as you see air rise to the top. The sludge is so thick that it permeates your hand. It is virtually like muck. It is goo and disgusting. As you try to get the orange substance out of your hand, you realize that there is something stuck to it.
Bones.....long-dead marine wildlife have died long ago--fish, dolphins, crabs, lobsters,.....all dead. The ocean is endless. It is a graveyard of death. All of it covered in this thick orange soup mix of toxic life. It is a bacterium that is responsible for this, but in the end, humanity might just be as accountable for it.
You know what they call it. Some called it the end of the world. Some called it Bacteria Toxin 23-9. Most of the humans called it "The Orange Muck," for its almost pure color. The sludge is a leftover byproduct of the bacteria. So much pollution, oil, plastic, and garbage, the bacteria have plenty to feed from. It is an almost endless food source. Despite the horrific look of the ocean, nature is merely responding to the massive changes that humanity brought to it. If it needs to start over, then so be it. The bacteria will do its job. It will clean the oceans, lose its food source, and then life will eventually start over again.
Of course, there was one problem with this. Humanity was not ready for this horrific encounter. The Orange Muck was everywhere. The air was too hard to breathe from the ash and poison put into it. You realize that you are in hell. The storm is in the distance as you look upon it. The toxin is everywhere, and filtering the water does little. It is in the water itself. It is in the rain. It is in the ocean. It is in the sea. It is everywhere. If you drink it, then you are drinking poison. What killed off the marine life certainly killed off half the humans that lived on this planet within the first few years of its discovery.
Why are we here? You already know the condition of this planet. It is the planet of lost cause. You know the history. Humanity left the planet to find a new home, but some stayed. Perhaps they wanted to use the underground cities as a refuge. Fewer people live there now, so you have more space around you. You have the best equipment to help live away from this dump heave of a planet that they call Earth. It is not surprising when the evacuation was called out, about a few hundred million people still decided to stay on this planet. The rest of the billion found a new home. They found the ability to fold space and found better worlds to live on.